Comment by JonChesterfield
3 years ago
I use one for building C++. Granted that's a bit niche, but a tmpfs filesystem over the build directory keeps the load off the SSD. Haven't actually checked it's still faster for a while but it certainly used to be. Have been doing that for five years or so.
> I use one for building C++. Granted that's a bit niche (...)
Not niche at all. Using a RAM disk for building C++ applications is one of the oldest and most basic build optimization tricks around. It's specially relevant when using build cache tools like cache, which lead large C++ builds to no longer be CPU bound and become IO bound.